Proteus Hardware and Software♯
The Proteus cluster has been retired, but the information here is being retained for historical purposes.
Hardware♯
The qhost command gives a snapshot of all hosts/nodes.
Login nodes♯
- Dell PowerEdge R720 server - Intel® Xeon® E5-2665 Sandy Bridge CPUs - 16 cores - 64 GB RAM
- Dell PowerEdge R715 server - AMD Opteron™ 6378 Piledriver CPUs - 32 cores - 128 GB RAM
Compute nodes♯
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17 Dell PowerEdge C6220 chassis containing 4 servers/chassis
- Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 Sandy Bridge CPUs - 16 cores/server (2 socket) - 64 GB RAM/server
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3 Dell PowerEdge C6220 containing 4 servers/chassis
- Intel® Xeon® E5-2665 Sandy Bridge CPUs - 16 cores/server (2 socket) - 64 GB RAM/server
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1 Dell PowerEdge C6220 II chassis containing 4 servers
- Intel® Xeon® E5-2650 v2 Ivy Bridge CPUs - 16 core/server (2 socket) - 64 GB RAM/server
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1 Dell PowerEdge C6320 chassis containing 4 servers
- Intel® Xeon® E5-2650 v3 Haswell CPUs - 20 core/server (2 socket) - 128 GB RAM/server
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1 Dell PowerEdge C6420 chassis containing 4 servers
- Intel® Xeon® Gold 6148 Skylake CPUs - 40 core/server (2 socket) - 192 GB RAM/server
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9 Dell PowerEdge C6145 chassis containing 2 servers/chassis
- AMD Opteron™ 6378 Piledriver CPUs - 64 cores/server (4 socket) - 256 GB RAM/server
GPU Compute Nodes♯
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8 Dell PowerEdge R720 servers
- Xeon® E5-2650 v2 Ivy Bridge CPUs - 16 cores/server (2 socket) - 64 GB RAM/server
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Each node holds 2 NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm GPU devices (Kepler architecture)[1] - single Kepler GK110 GPU, 2688 CUDA cores, 6 GB GDDR5 memory
Storage♯
- High performance shared scratch: Dell/Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre utilizing Lustre Parallel File System - 120 TB raw (88 TB usable) capacity utilizing QDR Infiniband providing aggregate 6 GB/s read, aggregate 3.5GB/s write performance
- Persistent storage: Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - 180 TB raw capacity, 160 TB usable capacity
Network♯
- Network fabric: 4X quad data rate
Infiniband
(Mellanox) See also:
Total of 2432 compute cores, 4 GB RAM per core
Software♯
- Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit
- Job scheduler: Univa Grid Engine
- Compilers: Intel Composer XE, AMD x86 Open64 Compiler Suite, and GNU Compiler Collection
Schematic♯
This is a simplified schematic of Proteus. Some elements are not shown: the gigabit Ethernet management network, and the internal structure of the two storage devices.
ERRATUM: the server room switch is 100 (hundred) Gbps Ethernet, not 10 Gbps as shown.
